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M. WIELANDT. FIRE EXTINGIIISHER.

No. 530,672. Patented Dec. 11,1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN 'WIELANDT, or BERLIN, GERMANY.

FIRE-EXTINGUISHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,672, dated December 11, 1894. Application filed November 17, 1893. Serial No. 491,199. CNo model.) Patented in England October 31, 1893, No. 20,662.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARTIN WIELANDT, engineer, of 49 Kopenickerstrasse, Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, have invented a new and useful Fire-Extinguisher, (patented. in England October 31, 1893, No. 20,552,) of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improved apparatus for extinguishing fires, and it consists of a water-throwing can combined with a hand syringe the handle of which also serves as one of the handles of the can, the object being to obtain in one article two necessary articles for fire extinguishing. I attain this end by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a View in vertical section of my improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation thereof, and Fig. 3 is a view in plan thereof.

Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.

The water-throwing can a is made of any suitable sheet metal and it is provided as shown by Fig. 1, with a cover 1) which is hinged to the top 0 of the can. The cover 1) is inclined with relation to the vertical axis as shown and it has a projecting part b' on its inner side. With the can there is combined a hand syringe for use in cases where it would be dangerous or impossible to approach too near to the fire with the throw ing-can. The hand syringe consists of a cylinder d fitted in the back of the can a, provided with a piston d and a piston rod (1 which passes through the top of the cylinder 01 and is provided with a transverse handle h. The cylinder d is pro vided with any suitable delivery nozzle (1*.

To enable the handle h to serve also as one of the handles of the can a there are provided on the outside of the can two hooks e and c with which'the handle h of the hand syringe can be engaged, to make it rigid with the can, by twisting it sidewise the hooks facing in opposite directions as shown by Fig. 2.

When it is desired to employ the throwingcan the handle h is engaged with the hooks" e and e and is then held in the left hand,

while the handle f on the lower end of the can is grasped by the right hand. I

In pouring the water on to the fire, the cover will by reason of its weight'aud of the peculiar form of its inner surface exert a certain pressure upon the outflowing water and thus cause it to assume the form of a broad but thin stream which is much more efiective in extinguishing a fire than if the entire contents of a pail were thrown in bulk into the fire..

If the water cannot be thrown upon the fire directly from the can, the hand-syringe is withdrawn from the can, the hooks e being released from the handle it for such purpose, and the water is drawn into and forced out of the syringe by means of the pistond' operated by the handle 72, the water being forced out through the nozzle (1*.

I wish it to be particularly understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details of construction hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, but that I hold myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure" by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. An apparatus for extinguishing fire, consisting of a can, a handle secured thereto, a hinged cover at the top of the can, a syringe secured to the latter, an actuating handle for the syringe, and a locking device to hold-said handle fixed with relation to and to form a second handle for the can, substantially as described.

2. An apparatus for extinguishing fire, consisting of a can having a fixed handle at its lower end, a hinged cover at its top, the said cover having an inclined inner surface, and the can having therein a hand syringe the piston rod of which carries a handle capable of being engaged with hooks on the can to so fix it that it serves as the other handle of the can, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence to two witnesses.

MARTIN VVIELANDT. 

